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TIL turtles can "breathe" through their butts
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VBBrk
TIL that time dilation is the reason we can use muon tomography to scan the Great Pyramids. From their point of view, muons only live a very short time. But they go so fast that from our point of view, they live long enough to penetrate the atmosphere and large objects.
8aa4Z
TIL that if you find a worm in a wrapped chocolate bar, it is probably the Cocoa moth, Ephestia Elutella. When these moths are present in the factory, there’s a possibility their eggs are present in the finished product. The hatched larvae is discovered when someone bites into the chocolate.
4QQ6
TIL that in 4 billion years, when the Andromeda galaxy and the milky way collide, the probability even just two stars colliding is negligible.
8arDZ
TIL that Decision theory is the study of an agent's choices. Decision theory can be broken into two branches: normative decision theory, which analyzes the outcomes of decisions or determines the optimal decisions given constraints and assumptions.
WEN4
TIL Pubic lice are disappearing because of bikini waxes